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Subject: Re: Mate in 30

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:24:26 09/06/04

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On September 06, 2004 at 18:17:08, Andrew Platt wrote:

>On September 06, 2004 at 18:12:40, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>Now I am afraid that movei may crash in some positions
>>After all if it can search 59 plies with searching to depth of 6 plies it may
>>also search more than 100 plies with searching to depth of 11 plies in some
>>position.
>
>You are worried because ply > MAX_PLY. If I reach MAX_PLY I just return beta.
>I'm not sure that's appropriate but I don't know a good way to continue either.
>
>Andy.

The problem is that today I even do not check this condition because of the
assumption that it practically cannot happen.

It was probably the case in the past but I guess that today(not with the public
version but with the latest version) it can happen inspite of the fact that it
is not easy to compose the right position.

Uri



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